During the two-year duration of Vessel Navigator trade, a candidate is trained on Professional Skill, Professional Knowledge, Engineering Drawing, Workshop Calculation & Science and Employability Skill. In addition to this, a candidate is entrusted to undertake project work and extracurricular activities to build up confidence. The broad components covered related to the trade are categorized in four semesters each of six months duration. The semester wise course coverage is categorized as below:

1 st Semester – In this semester, the trainee learns about safety and environment, use of fire extinguishers, artificial respiratory resuscitation to begin with. Able to calculate course, distance and position arrived using plane parallel sailing and Mercator sailing method. It includes Illustration of altitude corrections, various fishing methods and selection of suitable fishing gears as per fish resources and basic design concept of fishing gear.

2 nd Semester – In this semester, the candidate will be able to achieve skill on using different navigational equipment – sextant, azimuth mirror, pelorus, chronometer, etc. maintaining bearing of a vessel, determine position of celestial body. The trainees will able to execute by proper selection of different types of ropes, blocks and tackles, able to design and perform fabrication of trawl with TED and BRD, perform navigation by collecting data on fishing from different sources.

3 rd Semester – In this semester, develop skill to carry out repair and maintenance of fishing vessel and make ready for inspection certificate. It includes training to overcome the critical situation during on board navigation; to analyze various aspect of stability for preparing voyage; surveying of various subsistent fishing gears. (viz. pole and line, troll line, changadom, raft, bag net, dol net, shore seine, Chinese net, cast net, trammel net, tangle net, etc.)

4 th Semester – In this semester, the candidate will be able to calculate azimuth, intercept direction of position line and draw the position line in the chart, to anchor vessel and to release cable in appropriate place; to observe standard guidelines during voyage in different emergency situation (viz. abandoning, distress signals, storm signals). It includes conservation and management of marine fishery resources; hygienic handling of fish on board; various fish preservation technique to avoid spoilage.

Professional Knowledge subject is simultaneously taught in the same fashion to apply cognitive knowledge while executing task. In addition components like Physical properties of engineering materials, ship stability – density, relative density, Archimedes principle, principle of floatation, various displacement, light load, present load , dead weight, effect of density on draft and displacement fresh water allowance, dock water allowance, tonnes per centimetre immersion, load lines and related problems, centre of gravity, centre of buoyancy, to find the final K.G after loading discharging and shifting, transverse static stability, stable , unstable, natural equilibrium and free surface effect and correction, various types of ropes (vegetable, synthetic and wire ropes), breaking strength, safe working load, design and construction of fishing gear (joining, stapling and mounting), sea food quality assurance system in India, HACCP.

The projects need to be completed by the candidates in a group. In addition to above components the core skills components viz., Workshop calculation & science, Engineering drawing, employability skills are also covered. These core skills are essential skills which are necessary to perform the job in any given situation.